Search and seizure: The French Supreme Court confirms the legality of several orders authorizing visits and seizures in the recycling and rendering sectors

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The period under review has brought its share of rulings relating to challenges to search and seizure operations [hereafter "OVS"]. In three rulings dated January 4, 2022 and one dated January 12, 2022, the Court of Cassation confirmed the legality of several orders of the liberty and detention judge [hereafter "JLD"] authorizing OVS in the rendering and waste collection, management and treatment sectors. In its three rulings dated January 4, 2022, the Court of Cassation clarified that the JLD does not have jurisdiction to qualify the suspected practices in the context of the request filed by the administration and that OVS may be duly authorized when